String Quintet (Schubert)

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Franz Schubert (1797–1828) in 1827 (oil on canvas), painting by Anton Depauly

The string quintet in C major op. Post 163, D 956 , is a late chamber music work by Franz Schubert in four movements . It has the unusual for the genus occupation two violins - viola - two cellos . The string quintet was probably composed in September 1828, two months before Schubert's death. It was no longer performed during his lifetime and was not printed until 1853. The autograph is considered lost.

construction

  1. Allegro ma non troppo
  2. adagio
  3. Scherzo. Presto trio. Andante sostenuto
  4. Allegretto

Similar to other late works by Schubert, such as his Great C major symphony and the last of his piano sonatas D 958, D 959 and D 960 (-> Piano Sonatas No. 19 to 21 (Schubert) ), the first movement is extraordinarily long . He uses the sonata form and takes more than a third of the playing time of the entire composition (~ 50 minutes).

The second movement, which is a three-part song form A - B - A, has achieved particular fame . The beginning and the end part in E major are of a great calm and stand in stark contrast to the stormy, turbulent middle part in F minor. This sentence, with its elegiac character, is used as background music in some films . Examples are the Schubert biography With My Hot Tears , Where to and Back ( Axel Corti ), The Wannsee Conference , The Human Blemish and The Limits of Control .

The lively Scherzo initially returns to C major, until it is followed by a thoughtful, elegiac trio that is difficult to pin down in terms of key . The final movement is a fiery rondo with clear influences from Hungarian dance music.

Quote

Joachim Kaiser says of the work: “Before Franz Schubert's string quintet in C major, all people to whom music, chamber music even mean something, bow happily in admiration - or rave about it. The work occupies a singular place in Schubert's oeuvre, even in music literature. It is enigmatic, and it is completed ... No one can use words to completely unravel the sounding mystery of this work or to bring it to terms. "

Recordings

Cross reference

The composer's last work, the associated three piano sonatas Nos. 19 to 21 (D 958-960), was written around the same time . The article on these works also contains information and comments on the last months before Schubert's death.

literature

  • Walther Dürr , Arnold Feil: Reclam's music guide Franz Schubert. Reclam, Stuttgart 1991 (2002 with updated list of references). ISBN 3-379-20049-2 .
  • Hans Renner : Reclam's chamber music guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1955, pp. 393-397.
  • Work introduction in Joachim Kaiser's concert guide, CD No. 13. Production by Bayerischer Rundfunk (1995), distributed by TR-Verlagsunion .
  • Peter Gülke : Zum Bilde des late Schubert , printed in the yearbook of musicology 1973–1977 , Leipzig 1978 and music concepts (edition text + kritik, H.-K.Metzger / R.Riehn) special volume, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-88377 -019-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BR-KLASSIK contribution by Clemens Prokop from February 5, 2011: The strong piece: String quintet in C major. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ audio samples

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